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Foil 36 AWT Components -- Text Fields & Areas

From Java Tutorial 98- 3: Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken

TextFields and TextAreas for Foil 36
1 To add a text field for display or input one line of text (in this case, 30 characters wide):
  • TextField tf = new TextField("initial text", 30);
  • add(tf);
2 The text which is displayed can be changed:
  • tf.setText("now show a new text");
3 If the user types input into the text field, it can be obtained:
  • stringvar = tf.getText();
4 Or you can disallow the user to type:
  • tf.setEditable(false);
5 The TextArea class also has these methods, but it can display multiple lines.
6 When the user types in text and presses "return" or "enter", an ActionEvent is generated, so, similarly to Buttons, an ActionListener must be provided.

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